Is launching a product on here a thing

Posted by charliewehan10 |2 hours ago |8 comments

Jtsummers 2 hours ago[1 more]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Read those. If you're just using the site for self-promotion you are likely to get shadowbanned. HN is meant to be a community, self-promotion is allowed but should not be your primary (and definitely not exclusive) use of the site. It'll likely get flagged and eventually caught by the moderators.

goodmythical 2 hours ago[2 more]

It's called "ShowHN" and is located at the top of the page. Here's the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

ThrowawayR2 36 minutes ago

Unless it's egregiously inappropriate for HN, you can probably post once or twice and people will be fine with it. You might have slightly better luck if you submit it as a Show HN; someone else has already posted the appropriate guidelines.

Don't be disappointed if it doesn't get much attention; most project launches in /new don't get much attention, much less make it to the front page.